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Aktaiou violent crime

Ακταίου · district

46/100

Aktaiou scores 46 out of 100 for violent crimeaverage crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 1,494 people at 618 people per km².

The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.

What Aktaiou is actually like

A good place to stayQuiet and well-lit, and the sort of place most visitors are pointed to.

A community of the Rio municipal unit on the northern coast, listed officially as Aktaio/Vernadaiika. It is a small shore settlement in the strip east of Rio, with beaches, summer houses and a handful of tavernas, used mainly by Patras residents. No visitor infrastructure beyond that and no incident reporting.

After dark

Quiet, with summer activity along the shore and near-silence out of season. No documented incidents or patrol priorities.

What to watch for

  • Empty holiday houses out of season
  • Unlit shore road

Staying here

Fine for a quiet summer seaside stay with a car. Far from the Italy ferry gates — not a base for an early sailing.